The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire

Year: 2002
Starring: Kenneth Welsh, Matt Frewer

The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes film utilizing an original story. The film was produced in 2002 for The Hallmark Channel as the last installment in a series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to Whitechapel after learning about a series of strange murders only two years after the Jack the Ripper murders in the same neighborhood. The local belief is that the killings are the work of a vampire brought back from a recent mission in Guiana. As they investigate the deaths, they engage in an ongoing debate about the supernatural with Watson believing in the possibility of vampires and Holmes remaining skeptical until he is able to prove the murders are the works of a living human rather than any undead creature. At one point, the investigation leads them to the psychic Madame Karasky, who says that Holmes' will be saved by the church. Coincidentally, Holmes is pushed in front of a moving carriage by the supposed vampire, only to be saved by a street urchin. In order to catch the murderer, Holmes disguises as a monk and reveals that the vampire was Brother Abel, hoping to get revenge on the monks who didn't

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